Quentin Tarantino Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Truth, Writing, Character

  "The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2015.

• I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Stuff, Filmmaker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Writing, Hands

• Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  "Quentin Tarantino - The "Inglourious Basterds" Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

• I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Song, Writing

• I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Brain

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• You can't write poetry on the computer.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

• With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Kill Bill, Calling

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or while I'm writing it or when I'm making it. Because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Nails, Want

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, People, Break

  "Quentin Tarantino’s Classic Quotes" by Justin Kroll, variety.com. October 21, 2009.

• There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, People, Screenplays

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Trying, Ends

  "Quentin Tarantino Talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview". Interview with Henri Sordeau, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 11, 2009.

• By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Feet, People

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

• Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Actors

• The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Talking

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Pages, Made

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Down And

  "Quentin Tarantino Talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview". Interview with Henri Sordeau, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 11, 2009.

• You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Notebook, Writing, Hands

  Source: allwomenstalk.com

• I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Editing, Lasts

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

• In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time when we weren't politically correct, at all, and we all wince at moments when we look to the past and see that. I don't really know what the answer is, as far as that is concerned. However, me, as an artist, I don't really think about it, at all. It actually is not my job to think about that, especially in terms of me, as a writer, but also as a filmmaker. I'm not worried about the filmmaking part because, if I'm writing it, that's what I'm going to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Past

  Source: collider.com

• I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Novel, Screenplays

• I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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